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Year(s): 1915 »
1915.58
Wildflowers
Alternate title: Wild Flowers
Summer 1915
Oil on composite wood-pulp board
8 1/2 x 10 9/16 in. (21.6 x 26.8 cm)
Inscription recto: l.l., estate stamp

Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.l., in graphite, 1st class; u.l., in ink, H; u.c., in graphite, J.M.; u.r., in ink, AM; u.r., in ink, PROPERTY OF / HARKNESS; l.r., in graphite, 89 M. Thomson; on label (removed), [in orange pencil] T-27/ [in ink] M.Tweedale / Toronto
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Elizabeth Harkness, Annan and Owen Sound
Margaret Thomson Tweedale, Toronto, by 1937
R.A. Laidlaw, Toronto, 1970
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg (1970.12.2). Gift of R.A. Laidlaw, Toronto, 1970
Exhibition History
1937 Thomson
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 45, as Wild Flowers, lent by Mrs. W.M. Tweedale, Toronto (name repr. as Twaddle in catalogue).
1939 Thomson
Mellors Galleries, Toronto, Exhibition of the Work of Tom Thomson and J.E.H. MacDonald, February 1–18, 1939, no. 48, (?)
1984 West Palm Beach
Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, Masterpieces of Twentieth-Century Canadian Painting, March 18–April 29, 1984. (repr.)
2002 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 54, (repr. col.) Traveled to: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 5, 2002–January 5, 2003; Musée du Québec, Quebec City, February 6–April 3, 2003; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, May 30–September 7, 2003; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, September 29–December 7, 2003.
Published References
Duval 1973
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, pp. 18, 172 as 1917 (repr. col. cover).
Weiers 1974
Weiers, Margaret. "Tom Thomson's Sister Still Does Two Sketches on 'Good Day.'" Toronto Daily Star, 14 March 1964.
Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 5, 228 (repr. col.)
Town 1977a
Town, Harold. "Tom's Work." Toronto Life (September 1977), p. 45 as 1917 (repr.)
McMichael 1983
p. 14 (repr. col.)
McMichael, R 1986
McMichael, Robert. "One Man's Obsession." One Man's Obsession. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986, pp. 268–70.
McMichael 1989
McMichael Canadian Collection of Art. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, 1965-1990. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1989, p. 33 (repr. col.)
Booth 1995
Booth, David. Images of Nature: Canadian Poets and The Group of Seven. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1995, p. 10 (repr. col.)
Murray 2002
Murray, Joan. Flowers: J.E.H MacDonald, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2002, pp. 13, 98–99 (repr. col.)
Reid and Hill 2002
Reid, Dennis and Charles C. Hill. Tom Thomson. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre with the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 133, 207 (repr. col.)
Murray 2006a
Murray, Joan. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, One Hundred Masterworks. Kleinburg: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2006, pp. 178–79 (repr. col.)
Murray 2011
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 52–53 (repr. col.)
Record last updated April 4, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Wildflowers, Summer 1915 (1915.58)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=337 (accessed on May 4, 2024).